Steele just dropped out in the race for re-election as RNC chairman.
Anyone know anything about the other candidates? Are they all teabagger insane?
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Steele just dropped out in the race for re-election as RNC chairman.
Anyone know anything about the other candidates? Are they all teabagger insane?
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Bulworth
Although his party did well in the mid-terms I’m a bit surprised he ran for re-election to the post. Usually these things are one term and done.
DJShay
I mourn the loss of his particular brand of RNC hip hop street comedy.
FormerSwingVoter
I haz a sad.
I don’t know who the other candidates are – but it’s literally impossible for them to be less competent than Steele was.
David Hunt
I don’t no anything about any of the candidates at all, but I’d say the over/under on them would be waaaay more teabagger insane.
Mark S.
This should give you some idea.
“I thought you asked my favorite bar!”
Warren Terra
The question is, did he lose because he’s an incompetent buffoon – or was it just because, for whatever reason (some shreds of pride, laziness, whatever) he refused to join in the fun and dial the Crazy up to Eleven? He may be an utter joke, but I don’t remember him saying any of the crazy things (Death Panels, Socia|ism, obviously Kenya) that have been so key to the energy on the Right.
Violet
Bummer. I loved Steele as G to the O to the P chair.
Don’t know anything about the others, but Reince Priebus has a fantastic name. Potential comedy gold.
David Hunt
@FormerSwingVoter:
I have noted the time and date that you posted that for future use. I’d guess has almost as much potential as Peak Wingnut.
DonkeyKong
I like the creepy guy that looks like Q from star trek the next generation. Forgot his name.
jeffreyw
Mmm…cookies
DougJ
Feel the Priebmentum!
The beautiful thing is that Reincementum works just as well.
Violet
@Mark S.:
She’s the one Steele threw his support to, right?
shortstop
The loss of Steele is a serious blow. I pray, in my secular way, that he continues to share his wit and wisdom via every possible media opportunity.
It’ll be Reince Priebus (whose name always looks misspelled no matter how you spell it). Mr. Priebus works for a law firm which advises clients on how to adjust to the ACA and is on record as telling everyone that it’s perfectly constitutional. (I expect old Reince to suddenly have a public difference of opinion with his colleagues.) He also was a member of the firm’s “Stimulus Legislation Team,” helping clients seek stimulus funds. Good times.
licensed to kill time
We’re all gonna miss that ‘ol cow on the tracks, shouting “No!”
Splat.
piratedan
yeah, but I bet the time honored tradition of Republicans and strip clubs remains intact despite the change.
DonkeyKong
My favorite Steele quote.
geg6
@Violet:
What you said.
beltane
They guy who is going to take Steele’s place has a really weird name that sounds like some kind of contagious skin rash.
joe from Lowell
@Mark S.:
That was appalling.
“War and Peace. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
facepalm
freelancer
Maybe Michael can go get the band back together now…
Chyron HR
Ah, old Reince Priebus. Reincey-poo, we called him. Yes, comes from a long line of Hufflepuff men, he does. Wet his sheets like clockwork.
BGinCHI
NO!
How am I going to know how to wear my hat now??!!
Or how to roll??!!
Violet
Does this mean the GOP is kicking out the last black guy they’ve got?
freelancer
@BGinCHI:
Just ask a brother for some slum-love!
shortstop
@DonkeyKong: That’s a beauty. Here’s my favorite:
handy
@freelancer:
You just had to go and resurrect that from the 90s now didn’t you. Some things should never be remembered.
shortstop
@Violet: They’re pretty sure Herman Cain’s going to solve everything.
DJShay
@BGinCHI:
Wins the internet today.
soonergrunt
This is terrible, because I could always count on Michael Steele to provide a laugh or a groaner (or both) or two right when I needed it. Like when they did the big GOP.com rebuild and the Chairman’s blog was named “What Up?”
PaulW
@Violet:
Allen West. :shudder:
Tom Hilton
I don’t know about any of the other candidates, but it’s a safe bet that they’re all on the hook. Only Michael Steele was truly off the hook.
Pamela F
@FormerSwingVoter:
I haz a sad too. However, regardless of Steele’s comedy gold, I GAR-ON-TEE his successor will descend into deeper wingnuttia…sans the humor.
trollhattan
Sorta OT, but can there now be any doubt Loughner is Republican? He’s just a double wetsuit away from being qualified for RNC chair.
BGinCHI
@freelancer: But there’s no other brother like that brother.
Mark S.
And who could forget: Michael Steele on Intern Picture Day.
And is it just me or did Steele really need a tailor? His suits always seemed too big in the arms and too small in the chest.
freelancer
@soonergrunt:
Who can forget GOP.am?
BGinCHI
Any truth to the rumor that Steele is going to write for FDL?
shortstop
@BGinCHI:
@Tom Hilton:
@soonergrunt:
Y’all have me weeping with laughter over here. I am going to miss him SO MUCH.
PaulW
Steele’s biggest sin was that he ran the RNC into huge debt: he was a terrible fund-raiser and was lousy about reining in the expenses. The good news is the next RNC Chair ought to be way better in getting the funds in to pay down the debts. The bad news is the next RNC Chair is going to do that by being batshit crazy enough to get the Teabagger crowd to fork over more cash.
jl
Wikipedia (FWIW) says Priebus is a commie, and Anti-Christ:
“… Priebus has come under fire from conservative activists for his role in seeking federal stimulus funds during his time at the Michael Best & Friedrich law firm in 2009. Priebus was a member of the firm’s “Stimulus Legislation Team, which sought to “identify opportunities, prepare appropriate proposals and make targeted contacts to secure [federal] funds.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reince_Priebus
PaulW
@BGinCHI:
No I don’t think Steele will write for FDL… but he is scheduled to make return appearances on Sesame Street.
…what?
DJShay
@BGinCHI: Ok wait, you just upped the ante with that one.
JR (Not the other JR)
I will miss Michael Steele and especially the Michael Steele puppet on the Daily Show. >*pours one out for da homies*<
Drive By Wisdom
The RNC’s long national nightmare with affirmative action comes to an end.
Sadly, Americas national nightmare continues.
stuckinred
Now all the dude’s on the corners will have to go back to dem dems.
BGinCHI
@shortstop: Was that a Holly Hunter in Raising AZ “I’m gonna miss him so much”?
Quality.
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
Of course Steele was a horrible fundraiser– do you think GOP stalwarts are going to give money to a ni…. er, well, y’know?
licensed to kill time
@trollhattan: Eeeew. That is just Travis Bickle weird.
BGinCHI
@PaulW: He’s too tall to fit into the Big Bird costume.
Comrade Mary
Off topic but brilliant: Garry Wills applies the Underpants Gnomes algorithm to Palin’s transmogrification of the blood libel story.
(I think the “PROFIT!” step is left as an exercise for the reader.)
EDIT: FYWP.
LITBMueller
Maybe its just me, but “Reince Priebus” sounds like a character from a Star Wars movie… Totally awesome!
BGinCHI
Jesus, I hope the DNC doesn’t try to hire Steele now, you know, after his huge election triumph against them.
That would really wreck his alternate career as the new Arsenio Hall. Look out Conan.
suzanne
God. That makes me sad. He was hilarious.
I pray that you never ban matoko_chan, John. If she leaves, I’ll have nowhere else to refill my inner bottle of hilarious failsauce.
BGinCHI
@LITBMueller: Will someone PLEASE rearrange the letters of his name to spell something funny?
I’m busy.
giltay
@Mark S.: Holy crap! Michael Steele is Michael Scott!
shortstop
@BGinCHI: It totally was; thank you for reading that exactly as it was typed.
Villago Delenda Est
This new chair had best be careful not to poach on the mark pool of Mooselini and Newt “I need more money before I announce” Gingrich…
BGinCHI
@shortstop: Get back in there and get me a toddler.
Poopyman
@Mark S.: Am I the only one getting a Mark Foley vibe from those pics?
shortstop
@BGinCHI: I would like to add that RA is, somewhat unexpectedly, the most favoritest CB movie of my Chicago friend who loves cyclocross and fully shares your sense of humor and writing style, but I am afraid I am going to start creeping you out.
Warren Terra
@Violet:
Didn’t they just elect some black nutball teabagger to the House? From Florida or some other place in the South, I think?
BGinCHI
@shortstop: Is my doppelganger in a cycling club? That will narrow it down for me.
Mike B
I heard that Goldline International Inc. is going to be the new GOP chairman.
LITBMueller
@BGinCHI: Ummm… Penis Cure Bier?
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: Rube rice pen!s.
Wile E. Quixote
@LITBMueller:
Yeah, but it’s a character from the first trilogy, and somewhere there’s a warehouse full of unsold Reince Priebus action figures.
maya
How many more repubs will be thrown, like Michael Steele, under the Priebus?
Wile E. Quixote
@Violet:
No, because they’ll always have Alan Keyes.
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: I knew I could count on you.
When I first read that I’d forgotten my earlier post. Thought you were calling me names.
Hilarious.
BGinCHI
@Wile E. Quixote: When will he change his name to Alan Black Keyes?
That sounds fucking rock and roll.
shortstop
@BGinCHI: Not nowadays, but he was, and I think he knows everyone in town. You know, this might be easier: shortstopbats1000 at gmail dot com.
P.S. He teaches, too.
shortstop
@maya: It sounds a lot like PRIUS, don’t you think? DFH.
shortstop
Maybe the RNC’ll let him give a farewell performance. Pretty sure he’s going to do it even if they don’t.
SAT
Guess he’s uninsured again. Tell his kids they better not break anything (again).
trollhattan
@Poopyman:
His expression and posture in most remind me of Colbert’s “my black friend” photo. Life imitates comedy?
BGinCHI
@shortstop: Emailed you.
danimal
God, please let this convince Steele he needs to be….
…the next President of the United States of America.
Pretty please. He’s the anti-Romney.
BGinCHI
@danimal: Leading of course to the awesome ticket of Steele/Keyes.
That also sounds pretty rock and roll.
Rorgg
@BGinCHI:
Ok, how about:
Reince Priebus =>
=============
Unprecise brie
Biceps ere ruin
Pee ruin scribe
Pubic sneer ire
The Wikipedia comments thing said that he was listed as Reinhold in college, though, and Reinhold Priebus makes “Rebuilds phonier.”
BGinCHI
@Rorgg: That is yeoman work. I like this one:
Pee ruin scribe
Who changes their name from one silly thing to another?
The Moar You Know
This is heartbreaking. The man’s the only Republican I’ve ever known that was genuinely funny.
Granted, he wasn’t trying to be, but he still succeeded.
Mark S.
OT–I came across this while reading OTB: Six in 10 voters say they would not even consider voting for the former Alaska governor if she launches a White House bid. Has anyone ever had that bad numbers? How does such an unpopular politician suck up all the oxygen in the room?
ETA: That poll was from a month ago. I would imagine Palin has turned off more people since then.
Ash Can
Sadly, that’s probably a fact.
(ETA: Fixxored cuz I messed it up the first time around.)
Pangloss
Reince Priebus is pro-stimulus?
Does Reince renounce Reagan?
Does Priebus drive a Prius?
The GOP hopes he finds Jeebus.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
Is it too late to toss my hat in? They’d barely have to change the letterhead.
djork
@BGinCHI:
The best I got is:
Re: Penis Ice Rub
Joseph Nobles
Now whenever the new RNC chair says something loopy, we can all cry out, “The Reince is 2 damn high!”
I’ll just let myself out…
Calouste
@Mark S.:
I doubt that Palin has turned off more voters. 40% really is her baseline, because that is the percentage of voters that will vote R/anti-D even if it was Saddam Hussein (R) vs. Ronald Reagan (D).
GL
Who has the biggest Reince Priebus?
Calouste
@Rorgg:
Reinhold Priebus (pronounced Preeboos) sounds like a proper German name. Reinhold is a not uncommon first name in German and Priebus is a German town.
Mark S.
@Calouste:
That’s probably true, and I don’t know how useful these questions are. 43% said they would definitely not vote for Bloomberg. I doubt I would vote for the guy, but I wouldn’t answer that question “definitely not.”
Violet
@BGinCHI:
Sure:
Ein Rubric Pees
Ein Crib Peruse
Sounds like the last line in an epic poem. Fitting?
DougJarvus Green-Ellis
@Joseph Nobles:
I like that one.
oklahomo
Oh God, I misread that name and now I can only mentally pronounce it as Prince Rebus.
AAA Bonds
Further evidence of the realignment of the GOP from a media-driven model to a media-dominated model. They’re quite right to conclude Steele had nothing to do with their victory, which was achieved by turning over the entire campaign to ostensibly independent celebrities who don’t have much chance or desire to hold public office.
scav
Rinse Prius? Sounds like something a tree-hugger writes on a dirty car window.
Brachiator
@Violet:
Sounds like either a knockoff version of the Ford Prius, or someone getting mixed up when trying to speak about that puzzler of a Prince, Rebus.
Or rinse, priebus, rinse again.
Hunter Gathers
Reince Priebus is either a character from ‘Intolerable Cruelty’, a shitty pastry from Scotland or what Germans utter when they stub their toes getting out of bed in the morning.
Triassic Sands
@Comrade Mary:
Well, if you’re looking for “pundits,” you’re never going to find them. Listen carefully to Palin, she calls them p..u..n..d..i..N..t..s.
The Other Chuck
I totally want to call the guy “Prince Rebus”
Edit: dammit, lost to #97
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: You didn’t say what kind of world-famous cookies those are! And where’s the recipe?
WaterGirl
@Violet: Michael Steele can’t be the only one, because I saw a headline this week that said black republicans were asked to rate Michael Steele. I couldn’t bear to click on the actual article, but my first thought was “both of them?”
WaterGirl
@shortstop: That’s exactly what I was thinking! (only you said it better because I didn’t think to add DFH)
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@shortstop: Umm his firm has already issued a statement saying he was *not* on the team helping people to get stimulus funds through lawsuits. This is going to be comedy gold.
xian
@Triassic Sands: it’s like the way Shrub pronounces “tenets” as “tenants.”
one thing I will say for Palin, she is delaying the start of the 2012 election by cowing all the Republican pretenders.
shortstop
@Triassic Sands: She does! Every single time!
LITBMueller
@Wile E. Quixote: Would you believe there’s a Moff Rebus in the Star Wars Wiki???? Sweet!
Mike in NC
@xian:
These performance artists are really outdoing themselves. Santorum and Giuliani are practically living in New Hampshire these days, and tonight Newt was signing autographs and speaking to the faithful in Myrtle Beach, speculating on the ability of the GOP to gain 40 House seats and a dozen in the Senate next year.
Caz
Anyone care to define “teabagger insane” to me? From what I can tell, the tea party stands for (1) limited government; (2) strict construction and adherence to the Constitution; and (3) fiscal conservatism. Doesn’t sound so insane to me.
Someone please enlighten me as to what the “insane” aspect of the tea party is.
brantl
The guy they picked is from Wisconsin and gets along really well with the Teatards.
me
Yay me! As the first person to mention his name on this blog, let me thank the Republican Party for kicking his dumb ass upstairs and out of my district.
pseudonymous in nc
@Violet:
It’s a name that conjures up the image of an apartheid-era South African white nationalist in tight khaki shorts: Reince Priebus, right-hand-man to Eugene Terreblanche.
Uloborus
@Caz:
The insanity… well, it comes in many flavors, but the core of it is that they don’t seem to know what any of those things means. For fiscal conservatism there’s nothing they want to cut except social services that account for a drop in the budget’s bucket – but they’re eager to CUT taxes and run up even more debt. ‘Limited government’ appears to only apply to liberal causes. Military spending, stricter morality laws and enforcement, any steps, no matter how draconian, to punish Hispanic immigrants or Muslims – they’re actively in favor of these things. And strict adherence to the constitution is just as bad. They hate things like, say, the census – which is in the constitution. And separation of church and state – in the constitution.
And to put the frosting on this cake, their public behavior is outrageous. Last year they repeatedly showed up at Democratic town halls to scream at the representative about how he was voting for Nazi policies and ‘death panels’.
Oh, and a majority of them believe in paranoid conspiracy theories, particularly that Obama is a communist plant born in Kenya and raised to become president to destroy the nation. I’m not kidding, they believe that.
Caz
Uloborus, can you give me some support for your assertions? As far as I can tell from not living under a rock the last two years, the three tenets of the tea party sound like a good platform. So you’re saying the insanity is not in their tenets, but rather in their misunderstanding of them?
So when properly understood, you would support these three tenets?
I’m pretty sure they want to cut spending on more than just welfare and social security.
I’ve seen plenty of footage from tea party gatherings, and I’ve actually encountered a few on the street in the past couple of years and stopped by to see how hateful they were. Didn’t see any nazi signs, “kill Obama” signs, or “kick out minorities” signs. I didn’t even hear any hate speech at all. I heard some talking about getting back to the intentions of our founders. Seemed like peaceful conservative patriots to me. I did hear a few disparaging comments about GW Bush actually.
I wasn’t aware that the tea party was a faction of the “birther” movement. Although it would help if Obama actually showed the birthers a birth certificate. I’m pretty sure he has access to it, so I’m not sure why he wouldn’t want to dispell this horrific conspiracy theory outright by showing the birth certificate. This theory doesn’t appear in any of the tea party literature or in any of the gatherings I’ve seen, either in person or on TV.
I think I saw a bullseye on one of their placards though, which is probably why Giffords was shot. So you’ve got that going for you.
Seriously though, do you have any actual evidence of your assertions or is this just your opinion based on the informative news updates from MSNBC, Huffington Post, and the Daily KOS?
Ryan
I’ll just leave this here.
handy
@Ryan:
Bi-Doo-Bi-Doo-Bi-BOOYA!
Uloborus
@Caz:
…wow. Just… wow. Are you aware that he showed them his birth certificate? You’ve just proven that you do, in fact, live under a rock.
I’m actually all for fiscal responsibility. I think it’s a crime that George Bush wasted the surplus he inherited and ran up 6 trillion dollars in debt by cutting taxes (especially on the rich) and launching two wars that he was unable to win, one of which had nothing whatsoever to do with American security or interests. Fortunately, the Democrats are clearly the party of fiscal responsibility, since they’re the only ones proposing anything that reduces the deficit. How do you reduce the deficit? By getting the economy back on line ASAP, raising taxes, and balancing your expansive policies by trimming waste – the reason the HCR bill the Tea Party is MASSIVELY against reduces the deficit.
The constitution is incredibly complicated and was never meant to be considered ‘perfect’, but I certainly support upholding it. It’s a good thing that so do the policies of the current administration. But, say, preventing a mosque from being built in the general neighborhood of Ground Zero? That is directly against the constitution.
‘Limited government’ actually I’m okay with, but only okay. I’d like to keep the government out of areas where it’s unnecessary. But what is ‘necessary’? I mean, you HAVE to have roads and education and development of utilities, all things the Republicans the Tea Party supports have consistently voted against. Industry has to be seriously, seriously regulated – and that includes medical insurance and wall street. I have no particular desire to go back to the Hell of the late 1800s before the big turn-of-the-century regulation epidemic, every expansion of the safety net has been a smashing success, and the deregulation episodes of the last 30 years have led in a starkly direct fashion to the financial collapse, the horrific BP oil spill, the S&L scandal in the 80s…
You see, the problem here is not just that they’re not following their own precepts. It’s that they’re so far removed from those precepts that it’s incomprehensible. Their *leaders* are telling them that the HCR includes ‘death panels’. That a recession that was bleeding 700k jobs per month before he took office is somehow Obama’s fault. That he is deliberately plotting to destroy the nation. Do you know who, in polls, Tea Partiers consistently refer to as their leader, inspiration, and the only person they trust? Who is the only unifying thing researchers have found (besides voting Republican, gee) in the fractured organization of the 300 Tea Parties? Glenn Beck. Have you watched him? I have watched him. I have watched him try to explain that churches are Nazis and Obama is a Marxist because they’ve all used the word ‘social’ in descriptions of their policies. That was his logic. The Tea Partiers are unified by the words of a man whose system of logic is typical of paranoid schizophrenics.
Incidentally, your ‘pretty sure’ is wrong. This actually gets tested frequently. In fact it was tested ON NATIONAL TELEVISION on the man who was elected by the Tea Party to trim the budget – Paul Ryan. He was asked what he wanted to cut. Guess what? He could name nothing. *Nothing*.
AxelFoley
Reince Priebus?
The fuck kinda name is that? I thought the GOP hated foreigners?
Darkrose
@Uloborus: Troll! In the dungeon!
Thought you ought to know.